Most people would be shocked to know just how many men worry about size, and cannot possibly understand the masculine obsession with penile measurement.

If you’ve ever been told size doesn’t matter – you were told wrong! Now before you go looking for the measuring tape, let me clarify that I am here to claim that smaller is better – and no, I’m not talking about penis size. I’m talking about the size of my company – gaywebguy.com.

I run a very small web company. I work out of my home. I don’t have any full time employees. I don’t have a company vehicle. And yes, on large projects I work with other highly skilled designers and developers.

But unlike other small web agencies, I’m not going to pretend I’m any bigger than I am. I’m happy with the small size of my company. I know I can produce amazing results at a fraction of the cost of a big agency. I want my clients to know that I’m going to answer the phone when they call. I am the customer service department, the designer, developer, and the accountant.

Why smaller is better

As Seth Godin talks about on his blog, small is the new big. Small means the founder makes a far greater percentage of the customer interactions. Small means the founder is close to the decisions that matter and can make them, quickly. Small is the new big because small gives you the flexibility to change the business model when your competition changes theirs. Small means you can tell the truth on your blog. Small means that you can answer email from your customers.

Small is the new big only when the person running the small thinks big.

I developed a website that is standards compliant, visually appealing and easy to navigate. Customers can now easily find Stephen Jay Massage Therapy on the web – and send their booking requests directly to Stephen.

Local photographer Janet Kimber provided all of the photography for the new website – which turned out fantastic!

Check out the website.

According to a recent American survey conducted by Harris Interactive®, a small majority of gay and lesbian adults online today are reading blogs. More than half (55%) of gay and lesbian respondents reported reading some type of blog, compared with only 38% of heterosexuals.

The new nationwide survey of 3,000 U.S. adults, (ages 18 and over), of whom 404, self identified as gay or lesbian (which includes an oversample of lesbian and gay adults), was conducted online between May 11 and 18, 2009, by Harris Interactive, a global market research and consulting firm, in conjunction with Witeck-Combs Communications, Inc., a strategic public relations and marketing communications firm with special expertise in the GLBT market.

Apart from getting information online from reading blogs, gay and lesbian adults also are choosing to connect online through social networking sites more often than their heterosexual counterparts. Slightly more than half (55%) of gay and lesbian adults state they are members of Facebook, compared with 46% of heterosexual adults.

In several years capturing trends, we see again that gays and lesbians are not only looking to stay well informed but also to expand their key social, professional and personal connections online”, said Bob Witeck, CEO of Witeck-Combs Communications. “As companies work to make the most of their advertising budgets in the current economic climate, blogs and social networking sites are an even more powerful cross-section of opportunities today when reaching out to this market.”

Full data tables and methodology are available at Harris Interactive (PDF).